An Analysis of the Effect of Constituent Division of Reading Texts on Students of English as a Second Language Page: 8
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
The term 'analysis by synthesis' was originally used
in reference to a theory of speech perception. In this
theory, speech perception involves the internal synthesis
of the incoming patterns, which are synthesized according
to certain rules and are then matched against the patterns
under analysis (Stevens and Halle 1967). When a previously
perceived stimulus is recognized, it is identifed by noting
its congruence with a basic model held in memory (Downing
1982).
The term has been expanded to refer to perception in
general. For example, Bruner's description of perception
is similar to the analysis-by-synthesis model of speech
perception in that it involves 'an inferential leap from
some of the features of an object to a category or hypothe-
sis and a confirmation check in which the category or
hypothesis is tested against additional properties of the
object' (Anglin in Bruner 1973:3).
The analysis-by-synthesis theory of perception has
been further applied to the reading process, most notably
by Kenneth S. Goodman (1973b). He was the first to describe
reading as a 'psycholinguistic process by which the reader,8
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Childress, Anita Gaye. An Analysis of the Effect of Constituent Division of Reading Texts on Students of English as a Second Language, thesis, December 1986; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501132/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .